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The Chronicles of Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay	2004
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena	2009

Key points

Includes a remake of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.

The game is very unoptimized for anti-aliasing,^[1] recommended to disable it if you have performance issues.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		DRM: TAGES 30-day timer.
Amazon.com
GOG.com
GamersGate
GamersGate		OS X only, DRM: Deliver2Mac

Incorrect store name. See here for available options.		Windows only, DRM: TAGES 30-day timer.

Version differences

All Windows versions except GOG.com have TAGES DRM. After activating the game for a third time, TAGES will start a 30-day timer. After 30 days an activation will be restored up to the original total of three activations.^[2]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Enable quick save

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row Template:Game data/row

System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9860/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9860/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Non-16:9 resolutions are letterboxed by default.

If you're letterboxed on a 16:9 resolution, open Environment.cfg (located in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Atari\The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena) and make sure that VID_DWIDTH and VID_DWIDTH are set to the correct values.

Instructions

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)

Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play		Official servers have been shut down.

Issues unresolved

Screen saver mode deletes save files

Save files will delete themselves if the game is left running and your computer goes into screen saver mode. To avoid this, remember to quit the game before leaving it unattended or disable screen saver mode.

The game fails to restore resolution settings

The game may fail to change the desktop resolution back to the previous one (by default it launches at 640x480 fullscreen).

Instructions

Issues fixed

Game window too large for monitor

If you're running Windows 7/8/10 and the game window doesn't fit on your monitor when in full screen mode, you may need to lower the scaling on font size. Display Settings > Change the size of text.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2, Vista	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium D 805 or AMD Athlon X2 +3800
System memory (RAM)	1 GB 2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	11 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra	ATI Radeon HD 3850 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
Controller		Keyboard, mouse or dual-analog gamepad works with Xbox 360 controller

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (9860) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[Proton_path_note-3] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (9860) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (9860) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] Butcher bay add-on looks....rough on my PC - The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Giant Bomb

[2] The Chronicles of Riddick™ Assault on Dark Athena on Steam

[1]

[2]

[Note 1]

@@ Line 99: / Line 99: @@
 |widescreen resolution notes= Anamorphic by default; see [[#Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]].
 |multimonitor               = true
-|multimonitor notes         = Position Affects Gameplay
+|multimonitor notes         =
 |ultrawidescreen            = true
 |ultrawidescreen notes      =
@@ Line 107: / Line 107: @@
 |fov notes                  = FOV is increased when in stealth mode.
 |windowed                   = true
-|windowed notes             = Via options or toggle with {{key|Alt|Enter}}.
+|windowed notes             = Can also be toggled with {{key|Alt|Enter}}.
 |borderless windowed        = false
 |borderless windowed notes  = Resolution is reduced in windowed mode (e.g. 1920x1017 rather than 1920x1080).
@@ Line 119: / Line 119: @@
 |60 fps notes               =
 |120 fps                    = true
-|120 fps notes              = refresh rate can be set up to 144hz in graphics options. A bug may result in it being reset to 23hz when you re-launch the game.
+|120 fps notes              = Refresh rate can be set up to 144 Hz in graphics options. A bug may result in it being reset to 23 Hz when you re-launch the game.
 |color blind                = unknown
 |color blind notes          =
@@ Line 230: / Line 230: @@
 |udp  =
 |upnp =
+}}
+==Issues unresolved==
+===Screen saver mode deletes save files===
+{{ii}} Save files will delete themselves if the game is left running and your computer goes into screen saver mode. To avoid this, remember to quit the game before leaving it unattended or disable screen saver mode.
+===The game fails to restore resolution settings===
+{{ii}} The game may fail to change the desktop resolution back to the previous one (by default it launches at 640x480 fullscreen).
+{{Fixbox|1=
+{{Fixbox/fix|Set the startup resolution|ref={{cn|date=November 2016}}}}
+# Create the [[#Configuration file(s) location|configuration file folder]] if it doesn't exist.
+# Open it and create a file called {{file|Environment.cfg}}.
+# To set the resolution and refresh rate, add <code>VID_MODE=1920 1080 32 60</code>
+# Or to start the game in windowed mode, add <code>VID_MODE=desktop</code>
 }}
 ==Issues fixed==
-===Screen saver mode deletes save files===
-Save files will delete themselves if the game is left running and your computer goes into screen saver mode. To avoid this, remember to quit the game before leaving it unattended or disable screen saver mode.
 ===Game window too large for monitor===
-If you're running Windows 7/8/10 and the game window doesn't fit on your monitor when in full screen mode, you may need to lower the scaling on font size. Display Settings > Change the size of text.
+{{ii}} If you're running Windows 7/8/10 and the game window doesn't fit on your monitor when in full screen mode, you may need to lower the scaling on font size. Display Settings > Change the size of text.
 ==System requirements==

Developers

	Starbreeze Studios
	Tigon Studios
Publishers
	Vivendi Universal Games
Release dates
Windows	April 7, 2009
macOS (OS X)	April 16, 2010